Food & Drinks

9 drinks you used to have when going out

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A cheerful young woman with glitter eyeshadow laughing and sticking out her tongue, surrounded by various bottles of well-known alcoholic drinks.

Now it's all champagne, rosé, and Stelz, a lot of Stelz, but there was a time when the cozy alcoholic treat looked very different. When socializing was still just called drinking. This time was around, and usually just a little before the age of eighteen, and most drinks you can still taste just by reading the name.

1. Breezer

Breezer – or ‘just give me a top one and a pineapple breezer’ – is indispensable in this picture. They had an incredible variety of flavors and you drank it straight from the bottle.

2. Passoa

Passoa is also one of those typical drinks you encountered during the ‘pre-drinking’. The black bottle with tropical palm trees left no option to drink it with anything other than orange juice, so that’s what you did.

3. Flugel

You couldn't take a step without finding boxes full of these mini bottles of drink. Or yes, actually it resembled lemonade more. Taking a Flugel shot was also impossible to do without pushing the bright yellow cap on your nose. What a time.

4. Jillz (0.0%)

Since it was announced that Jillz would leave the shelves in 2021, the world has become a little less colorful. Whether you chose apple or raspberry; this was such a tasty bottle. It was even such a hit that the non-alcoholic variant was drunk as a soft drink.

5. Safari

When the Passoa was empty, you moved on to Safari, the two were almost identical. Both deliciously tropical and super sweet. The dangerous thing about Safari is that it was available in small bottles. Too easy for on the go.

6. Apfelkorn

Young children drink apple juice mixed with water and later you switch to Apfelkorn with water. It tastes exactly like everyone’s favorite juice and is also incredibly cheap.

7. Smirnoff Ice

That white bottle with a red cap: you recognize it immediately. Perfect for those who didn’t like beer yet. And if you got ’iced“, it had to be downed in one go without discussion.

8. Malibu

Malibu was pure coconut in liquid form. A kind of piña colada knock-off if you drank it with Fanta.

9. Dropshot

Black, sticky, and exactly as the name promises: Dropshot tasted like licorice. Not for everyone, but those who started knew what to expect.